Nostril-expander.



UNITED sTATEs lHENRY R. WOODWARD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NosTmL-ExPAND'ER..

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 23,1907.

Application filed August l. 1906. Serial No. 328.788.

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Be it known that I HENRY R. WooDwARD, I

of the city, county, and State of New York, have` invented a new andImproved Nostril- Expander, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description. v

l My' invention relates to improvementsin nostril-expanders.

I have found that with many people the tendency while breathing is forthenostrils to collapse morevor less or'at Aleast become somewhatrestricted so as to interfere with breathing. This lis particularly truewhen people are engaged in athletic sports-such as running, racing, orany effort which requires a large supply of air to the lungs- -and insuch exercises t e tendency is to open the mouth, thus admittingimpurities and also causing the mouth to dry quickly. l have found alsothat the habit of snoring is caused largely by this constriction of thenostrils, or atleast l struct the device so that it can do no in'ury,

cannot accidentally enter the head, an can be easily removed whendesired. f

With these and other ends in view my invention consists of anostril-expander, the

construction anduse. of Which will be heremafterzdescribed, and thenovelfeatur'es of construction claimed. y

,' Reference is to be had to the accompanyingfdra-Wings, 'forming a partof this specification, inwhich similar letters and figures of referenceindicate corresponding 'parts in all the viens.

:Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly diagrammatic, showing theapplication of my invention to the nose. Fig. 2 isa similar view showinga slightly-modified-form of the Fig. 3 is a detail, perspective.

apparatus. view of a preferred form of the device such as shown in Fig.1, and Fig. 4 shows a slight modification. and is similar to thestructure shown in Fig. 2.

The apparatus 1s made, preferably, of springwire, though obviously itcan be made of any This device is intended to enter.

l material which will be springy, will hold its shape, and will notinjure the wearer.

While I do not limit myself to the particular or recise form shown,still it is better to ma e it as illustrated, andhere the structure hasa point or bridge 10 in Fig. 3, or 10a in Fig. 4, which straddles thecartilage of the nose, and from this point the members divergeslightly,asf'shown at 11, and are then bent upward and rearward, as at 12,-, soas to follow the normal contour of the nostril, the said members l12being bent over gradually and returned upon themselves, as shown at 13,and finally terminating in inturned bends 14. lt will be seen that thisarrangement forms a springy loop more or less elongated for enteringeach nostril, and as the loo s are connected no injury can be done, Whie the bends 14 enable the device to be easily withdrawn: without thepossibility of the parts catching into the-skin.

It will be seen that the principle of the invention consists inproviding the springy loo s which will prevent the nostrils fromcoliapsin'g and 'in connecting the loops so that they cannotextend-inward too far and can be easily and instantly withdrawn. It isnecessary, however, to have the loops rather long, so that they willextend back into the nasal cavity of the hea-d, and they should lie in ageierally horizontal direction, with the connecting-bridge 1 1 bentdown, so as to straddle the cartilage of the nose.

In practice l have found that this device assists breathing under allconditions where the breath is more or less forced, that it enabll toassist breathing where one has a head* co Having thus fully described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-'- Y Adevice of the kind described comprising a pair of elongated openloop-like members of spring material having their terminal ends bent,and constructed to extend backward into the nasal cavity ofthe head, thesaid ends-by a bridge, which is bent at an angle to the said members soas to straddle the nosecartilage. l y

HENRY R. WOODWARD. Witnesses: WARREN B. HUTCHINsoN.

MARY A. S. MOELLER.

ables a large supply ofair to enter the lungs, E is therefore good forsingers, and is also valumembers being connected at the forward' IOO ICS

